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The fight game incorporates an uncanny mixture of talents and physical capabilities. Driven by an innate sense of awareness and survival, mixed martial artists put their bodies through the ringer. Some adapt and overcome better than others, but for the most part, the sport's collection of competitors inhabit the same natural ferocity. However, when it boils down to brass tacks, the list of hard-nosed Octagon occupants who can produce elite results in the eyes of adversity shrinks. So based on th read news >>

Jon "Bones" Jones and Daniel "DC" Cormier couldn't be much more different. That's part of what makes their bout on Saturday night at UFC 182 so compelling. Their personalities clash—which explains why they hate each other. Also, their fighting styles are different as well. Jones is an unorthodox, gifted striker with excellent takedown defense. Cormier is a world-class wrestler with quick hands and good boxing. This explains why, even aside from the mutual malice, the fight is so intriguing. Last read news >>

Like it or not, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women's bantamweight titleholder Ronda Rousey is a huge fan of professional wrestling, along with her "Four Horsewomen" stablemates Jessamyn Duke, Shayna Baszler, and Marina Shafir. The proof is in the WWE pudding. But just because the major leagues aren't in town doesn't mean Rousey & Co. can't get their wrasslin' fix, as evidenced by their attendance at the Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) indy show last Friday night (Oct. 17, 2014) in Reseda, read news >>

Repetitive, physical work is almost always done by foreigners in the United Arab Emirates. Mixed martial arts is no exception, and it is difficult for a place to produce homegrown fighters when immigrants outnumber the indigenous population by approximately five to one. read news >>

UFC strawweight fighter Paige VanZant revealed that she is undergoing intensive physica therapy for a spinal injury and uncertain whether she will be able to fight come Oct. 4. After weeks of people claiming they do not know where Paige VanZant is, including Urijah Faber of Team Alpha Male where she trained, the young strawweight finally came out and revealed that she had stepped aside from training camp to deal with an injury she sustained recently. VanZant suffered a spinal injury which she is read news >>

Famed Japanese lightweight Shinya Aoki discusses his disappointing featherweight debut and preparing for his first fight in Dubai against Kamal Shalorus. After what he considered to be a disappointing debut at featherweight, Shinya Aoki is back at 155lb, where he will meet UFC veteran Kamal Shalorus in the Iranian's One FC debut. The famed submission specialist has been placed in one of the feature fights of the promotion's debut event in the Middle East region. Although the country he will be v read news >>

Some fighters are strategic masterminds, others are technically sound, and a few are just physical freaks. MMA athletes tend to be some of the best-conditioned athletes in the world, and those in the UFC represent the top percentage of that group. Roy Nelson would obviously be given a pass. Guys like UFC middleweight Yoel Romero represent true physical specimens who likely put some doubt into an opponent's mind even before the showdown. MMA fans of course love a good scrap, but there's something read news >>

Jiu-jitsu, in case you hadn't realized it, is hard. It's a marriage of the mental, physical and technical that takes years to perfect. Actually, it takes years to even become serviceable, much less expert. There are times when things click into place and flawless execution is the reward, but those times come between long spurts of work and plenty of failure and missed opportunities. That's why the perfection is so rewarding, though. It's why, from the first time you put on a gi to the first time read news >>